Category: Bridges Project
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Bridges Project: Borden Avenue Bridge
For a small body of water, the Newtown Creek and its inlet, the Dutch Kill, sure have a lot of bridges over it. Its not surprising of course, these have been working waterways for scores of years and are still lined with warehouses – crossing them was a matter of economic expediency, and since they’re…
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Bridges Project: Hunters Point Avenue Bridge
Long Island City may be more well known now for condos than warehouses, but if you head east off the Pulaski Bridge the condos quickly fade to warehouses and sketchy looking strip clubs. This is where you’ll find the little Hunters Point Avenue Bridge (#19 on the McCarthy List), a little bridge which takes Hunters…
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Bridges Project: The Grand Street Bridges
When Phil was putting together his list of runnable bridges in New York, he wisely choose to put these two bridges together as a single entry (#11). Not much to report here really, two bridges, on grand street, over two sections of the terminus of the Newtown creek. The neighborhood is industrial headed leaning hipster,…
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Bridges Project: Greenpoint Avenue Bridge
Trying to get after these bridges while also trying to raise a two year can be a challenge. Right now, I’m going for some low hanging fruit within easy long run distance of my house. Today, it was out to hit a couple more of the bridges which cross the Newtown creek. First up was…
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Bridges Project: Madison Avenue Bridge
The Madison Avenue Bridge is probably best known as the final bridge on the New York Marathon course. I’ve run over it three times – once in 2005 during my first New York Marathon, once in training for the race this year, and once during the race this year. Madison Avenue connects Manhattan and the…
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Bridges Project: Willis Avenue Bridge
You cross five bridges during the New York City Marathon – the Verrazano, the Pulaski, the Queensboro, the Willis Avenue, and the Madison Avenue. By the time you get to the Willis, if you’re like me, you’re hurting, but if you’ve got some sense of your surroundings left, you’ll notice it’s a pretty nice (and…
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Bridges Project: The Verrazano Bridge
I’m returning lately to the project of running the bridges of New York City. They’ll be much more on this project in the months to come. Today, I wanted to note one of the bridges I tagged recently — Bridge Number 1 on the McCarthy list, the Verrazano Narrows bridge. Spanning New York Harbor from…
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Bridges Project: The Pulaski and the Queensboro
Every time I head out, this bridge project gets just a little but harder. The Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges were an easy couple of miles from my home. So were the Gowanus Bridges. The Williamsburg was just a little bit further, but well within my running comfort zone. Now that I’m starting to go a…
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The Long Run: Two Bridges the Williamsburg and the Manhattan
Another gorgeous Sunday, another bridge checked off the list. That’s eight down, eighty three to go. The Williamsburg, the Willie-B, the Billyburg – with one end in the Lower East Side and the other in Williamsburg, it is the bridge the unifies hip, young, New York City. Covered in rusting steel latticework, it isn’t…
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The Long Run: Two Bridges — Brooklyn & Manhattan
After a couple of weeks of not running any bridges, this Saturday I was back at it and checked two of the lowest hanging fruit– the Manhattan and the Brooklyn — off my list. That’s seven down, eighty-four to go. Over the years, the Manhattan Bridge has been a staple of my running. I’ve run…
Milo and the Calf 